Indian Point reactor shut for maintenance

May 21, 2011

BUCHANAN — The Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor was shut down Friday night so that workers could do maintenance on a transformer, officials at Entergy Nuclear Northeast said in a statement. The transformers are in a non-nuclear section of the plant. In November, an explosion in one of the transformers shut down the reactor. Entergy said the repairs are to replace bushings — which malfunctioned in November — on the second transformer as a precaution.